Magma steadily emerges between oceanic plates. It pushes the plates apart, builds large underwater mountains and forms new seafloor. This is one of the fundamental processes that constantly change the face of the Earth. But there are also times when new seabed is created without any volcanism, by un-roofing mantle material directly at the seafloor. Scientists have now published the first estimation based on seismic data on how much seafloor is produced this way.

CGM Writes: Detroit: Become Human for the PlayStation 4 from Quantic Dream is a beautiful jig-saw puzzle yet deformed puzzle. The individual parts look pretty, but once you try and piece it together, it all falls apart.

Bedtime Digital Games has announced that its musical indie adventure, Figment, will now release for Nintendo Switch in June. The game had previously been slated for a 31 May release, but an unforeseen technical issue has meant the date has needed to be pushed back to 28 June.

Bonobos (Pan paniscus) and other apes, such as common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and gorillas (Gorilla sp.), have muscles long-believed to be only present in humans and used for walking on two legs (bipedalism), using complex tools, sophisticated facial and vocal communication, according to new research by a Howard University scientist. “Long-standing evolutionary theories are largely based [...]